Checkpoint Loader Small v2 (Pipe)

Checkpoint Loader Small v2 (Pipe) is the leanest pipe-format checkpoint loader this pack ever shipped: checkpoint in, single pipe out, three required widgets and nothing else. No baked-clip toggle, no clip-layer switch - it always uses the checkpoint's baked VAE (unless you pick a separate one) and always applies the stop_at_clip_layer setting (default -1 here). The "v2" in its name is the version-history marker: the author re-released the Small pipe loader when renaming everything for v2, and then promptly marked it DEPRECATED as the loader family grew.

How it works

load_checkpoint_guess_config does the loading; the result is packed into the standard RvTools 9-slot pipe - model, clip, vae, latent (empty), width (8), height (8), batch_size (1), model_name, vae_name. Because the pipe carries a fixed width/height of 8 and batch of 1, it's meant for graphs that set those later (an empty latent node upstream of sampling) rather than loaders that bake real dimensions in - that's the difference between this and the v2 (Pipe) loader, which takes width/height/batch_size as inputs.

The inputs that matter

• ckpt_name - the checkpoint file.
• vae_name - Baked VAE (default) or a specific VAE file.
• stop_at_clip_layer - CLIP truncation, default -1.

Output pipe feeds any RvTools pipe consumer.

Installing

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/r-vage/ComfyUI-RvTools_v2

Restart ComfyUI or use ComfyUI Manager (search "ComfyUI-RvTools_v2"). No models.

The catch

Don't build new workflows on this one. It's DEPRECATED for a reason: the family it belonged to got consolidated, the non-deprecated Checkpoint Loader v1 (Pipe) does the same job with more control (baked-clip and clip-layer toggles), and v1 Small (Pipe) covers the "minimal pipe" niche without the deprecated flag. It's fine if you inherited it from a workflow - it'll keep loading checkpoints - but when you meet it in the wild, treat it as a sign the workflow is a few generations old. The usual pack caveats apply too: the pack is unmaintained (ComfyUI_Eclipse is the successor), and v1-repo node names from the deleted original repo can't be installed anymore.